Thank you for visiting the SBIR.gov web site. Please note that we collect no personal information about you when you visit our web site.

If you are visiting the SBIR.gov home page to browse through our site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
3. The date and time you access our site;
4. The pages you visit; and
5. If you linked to the SBIR.gov site from another web site, the address of that web site.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors-to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record personal information about individuals and their visits.

The SBIR.gov website does not use "session cookies" or "persistent cookies." If, in the future, we do start using a "persistent" or "session" cookie in order to customize your experience on the website, such a cookie will adhere to our longstanding policy-namely, the cookie will contain no personally identifiable information about you, will not be readable by servers other than www.sbir.gov, will be totally voluntary, and will be solely for your use.

For website security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, SBIR.gov employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage to the information on our Web site. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

If you have questions or concerns about NSF's privacy policy, please use our Contact Us page to let us know.